Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis
Occupation	Professor of Political Science
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University, University of Michigan
Genre	non-fiction
Notable awards	NAACP Image Award

Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.

Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Award for Nonfiction. Her book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

Life

Theoharis speaks in 2020

She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of Michigan. Her father is Athan Theoharis.

Works

Essays

• Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
• Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "MLK Would never shut down a freeway and 6 other myths about the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter", The Root, July 15.
• Theoharis, Jeanne, Burgin, Say, 2015. "Rosa Parks wasn't Meek, Passive or Naive--and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn't Learn in School,"The Nation, December 1.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, and Jeanne Theoharis, 2006. Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform. NYU Press.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform,"  The Nation, March 1.
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press. 29 January 2013. ISBN 978-0-8070-5048-4.

Books

• Noel S. Anderson; Jeanne Theoharis; Gaston Alonso; Celina Su (1 May 2009). Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. NYU Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8147-8320-7.
• Theoharis, J. (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7587-6. Retrieved 2018-02-05. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Brian Purnell; Jeanne Theoharis; with Komozi Woodard (2019). The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479820337.

Editor

• Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 January 2005). Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8285-9.
• Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 November 2009). Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3230-4.
• Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 9780312294687

External links

• Jeanne Theoharis on the Melissa Harris Perry show.
• Appearances on C-SPAN